Gary Tan Lee Yu (born 21 April 1982) is a Singaporean former professional swimmer. He is currently the Singapore national team's swimming coach. He had previously held several national swimming records in Singapore.

Swimming career

On 18 June 2001 at the SEA Games Time Trials in the 200 Meters

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he came in at 2:05.07 which is a record in Singapore. On 7 December 2003 at the 22nd

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, Vietnam, Gary won the Men 200 Meters Medley with the time of 2:05.94 which is a record in Singapore. On 24 June 2005 at the 1st Singapore National Swimming Championship, he won the Men 200 Meters

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with the time of 2:04.00 which is a record in Singapore.

Coaching

Tan formerly worked at Swimfast Aquatic Club as a coach and also a director at Swimlab. He was also the head coach of the Phoenix Swim Team, which represents UWCSEA (United World College of South East Asia) Dover. In 2011, Tan was suspended for a year for consideration for national coach accreditation after assisting a swimmer, Jeffrey Su, from Swimfast Aquatic Club to be absent without official leave when Su was supposed to be at

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's physiotherapy and recovery sessions. In 2014, he was named as assistant coach to the Singapore's national swimming team and appointed to be the national coach in 2016 after the former national coach, Sergio Lopez, left after the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro. He was named Coach of the Year at the 2018 Singapore Sports Awards, at that time the fourth year in a row that a swimming coach had taken the award.

Education

Tan attended

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where he was on the swim team.

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* 1982 births Singaporean male backstroke swimmers Singaporean male butterfly swimmers Singaporean male medley swimmers Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent BYU Cougars men's swimmers Anglo-Chinese School alumni Living people Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Southeast Asian Games medalists in swimming Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore Competitors at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Singapore Olympic swimmers of Singapore {{Singapore-swimming-bio-stub